Research and Planning

For my research and planning I used many example like NME and VIBE magazine which showed me what a real Music magazine should look like. I saw other front covers, double page spread and contents pages. This allowed me to see the codes and conventions of a magazine like mains images, mastheads, sell lines and plugs.

Post Production

In the Post Production of my AS courswork this is where I used photoshop to edit my magazine for example my photos, masthead and general layout of all four pages of my magazine. I used tools like brushes and and background effects.
We also used Adobe premiere to create our DVD which shows our planning documentry.

Digital Technologies

I used many digital technologies to create my AS coursework for example the cameras we used to make our photoshoot, which was a SLR Digital camera. This let my photos look more realistic and proffesional. Using the digital cameras was quick and easy. It also allowed me to produce more photos which was good because I had a more of a variety of photos to pick from. We also had the white screen and lighting for our photoshoots to make them look better. Secondly we used Adobe Photoshop to create our magazines. Having Photoshop allowed us to edit our magazine pages like using the tools for example brushes.

Narrative

AS Music Magazine

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Media theory

Critical media theory looks at how the corporate ownership of media production and distribution affects society, and provides a common ground to social conservatives (concerned by the effects of media on the traditional family) and liberals and socialists (concerned by the corporatization of social discourse). The study of the effects and techniques of advertising forms a cornerstone of media studies.

Audience

An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, or literatre theatre music or academics in any medium.

Genre

Is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.

So what is postmodernism?

Well...
A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality

Example?
Postmodernist film upsets the mainstream conventions of narrative structure and characterization and destroys (or, at least, toys with) the audience's suspension of disbelief to create a work in which a less-recognizable internal logic forms the film's means of expression.